Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

To be great, you must be misunderstood

A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.